UNHCE Information Technology & Distance Education Blog: October 2004 Archives

NEW offerings are available and FREE training through CIS and CLL in the next few months. Sign up EARLY!

See the list of offerings through local vendors in the next two months.

I. UNH CIS

Sign up early for CIS classes. Not only are the most popular classes oversubscribed early; CIS has begun to cancel classes which are under enrolled two weeks prior to the class date.

 CIS has changed some of their offerings. New courses being offered include:

• Adobe CS (Photoshop, Acrobat))
• Macromedia MX 2004 (Dreamweaver, Flash)
• Transitioning to MS Office 2003 (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Access)
• Dreamweaver Level 3

FREE training sessions

UNH CIS is offering the following courses free to UNHCE employees:

• 11/4 - Computing @ UNH: Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Using Photoshop to Create Wicked Cool Web Sites but Were Afraid to Ask
  
• 11/22 - Computing @ UNH: Using Dreamweaver MX 2004 to Create Webpages

For further information or to register, please consult their web site at: http://www.cistrainingcenter.unh.edu/

Vendor-based Training

CIS has arranged with outside vendors to offer classes on a variety of topics for a nominal fee. The cost is typically $99 for a full day or two half-day sessions, or $198 for 2 days or 4 half-day sessions. That is less than half the cost of the training offered to the public.

Classes in the following topics will be offered in the next two months.

• Adobe Acrobat
• Dreamweaver
• PhotoShop CS
• Access
• PowerPoint

All Microsoft Office applications are taught using Office 2003. Dreamweaver is version MX 2004.

For further information or to register, please consult their web site at: http://www.cistrainingcenter.unh.edu/

II. TheState of New Hampshire offers classes “at cost” to all UNH employees. This is at considerable savings from what one would pay with an outside vendor.

Two NEW classes offered are:

• Basic PC Skills
• Research on the Internet

In addition, the state is currently offering classes in the following topics during the next 2 months.

• Access
• Acrobat
• Excel
• PageMaker
• PowerPoint
• Word

Topics are on a variety of levels, including special topics, such as a Access query design, and Excel Formula or Macro workshops.

Please consult their website for further information on the above listings.

To consult their website, go to:

http://www.nh.gov/hr/docs/ Then scroll down to the section on training and select the term for which you’d like information. (Note – The URL for the specific calendar changes each semester. If you bookmarked their site, you may want to replace it with the new URL listed above. Then follow the directions for scrolling to the appropriate term’s document.)

Note – The state also offers a multitude of courses in other areas such as Effective management, strategic planning, supervisory techniques (certificate program), communication and writing skills, conflict resolution, grant writing, learning styles, and Myers-Briggs, to name a few.

III. College for Lifelong Learning will be offering the following classes during the next two months.

Seacoast Region – The following topics are offered in the Seacoast region in the next two months. (Note: Various levels of some of these topics are offered.)

• Access
• Excel
• Using the Internet for Research
• PowerPoint

FREE computer workshops in the Merrimack Valley Region

• PC Basics - Tuesday, October 12 3:00-5:00 pm at the Bow site and
• PowerPoint - Wednesday, October 13, at the Manchester site

For information, please contact Beth Ericson, Academic Skills Coordinator (beth.ericson@cll.edu) or Kathi Hennessy, Regional Librarian (kathi.hennessy@cll.edu). Registration is required. Call Bow at 226-9000 or Manchester at 627-2010.

Also of interest is a FREE course in Presentation Skills offered October 7 in the Littleton Center .

For further information and to register, consult their website at: http://www.cll. edu / .

CBT and Training Resources Guide

REVISED Training Resource Listings

The UNHCE Training Resources Guide (http://ceinfo.unh.edu/Intranet/ITDE/trg/vend_app.htm) has been revised. This guide contains information on training resources available in applications utilized by employees of UNHCE, including Microsoft Office, Adobe products (Acrobat, PageMaker, PhotoShop), as well as operating systems, and applications used by smaller audiences, such as DreamWeaver, Blue Ribbon YOUTH enrollment, or WordPerfect.

Included in this guide is a listing of Extension or University-owned Computer-based Training CD-ROMs (CBT), which can be used for free. UNHCE has a library of CBT (Training CD-ROMs) available from the ITDE office. The CDs are free to UNHCE staff, and can be borrowed for up to 2 weeks. CIS also has free CBT available to be used on campus.

This CBT can be used interactively, and allows you to receive information on just the topics where you desire training. For instance, you can select a topic such as “Creating/modifying headers and footers” in Word. It will show you how to do that step-by-step. You can repeat any sections as needed, and skip to other sections.

For further information on our CBT and a listing of the offerings, go to: http://ceinfo.unh.edu/Intranet/ITDE/trg/trcdtoc.pdf

To access the complete, newly-revised, Training Resources Guide, go to: http://ceinfo.unh.edu/Intranet/ITDE/trg/indextrg.htm